People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.